Welcome to the Health Information Exchange Weekly News Round Up from RosettaHealth. Each week, we will provide you with a summary of all the actionable news that hospitals, HIT vendors, ACOs, and population health providers need to be smart and effective when it comes to health information exchange.

Tripathi: ONC to Focus on Pandemic Response, Interoperability, Health Care Disparities

The newly appointed National Coordinator for Health IT, Micky Tripathi, recently spoke with Medical Economics about his goals as ONC director, especially in the areas of health data interoperability and electronic health record usability.

AMA Publishes Physician Information Blocking Resource Center

The AMA has launched an array of online educational resources to help physicians understand and ultimately end current information blocking practices. 

ONC: Information Blocking Opens Doors for Interoperability

Healthcare organizations and stakeholders must move on from a compliance mindset and begin to focus on the vast information blocking opportunities at hand, according to Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health IT.

New CAQH Directory Lists FHIR Endpoints and Third Party Apps

With new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regulations impacting information sharing for health plans going into effect this year and next, the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare recently unveiled its CAQH Endpoint Directory to help payers with compliance.

National Patient Identifier Coalition Launches Strategic Framework

Patient ID Now, a national patient identifier coalition of over 40 healthcare organizations, has called on the federal government to collaborate with the private sector and public health organizations to create and implement a national strategy to enhance patient matching, according to a recently published framework.

CDC's NHSN and Yale New Haven Health/Yale Center for Medical Informatics to Collaborate on Automated Hospital Reporting

The CDC’s NHSN surveillance system and Yale New Haven Health/Yale Center for Medical Informatics are collaborating to demonstrate implementation readiness for end-to-end automation of hospital pandemic reporting.

Best Practices for Integrating SDOH Data into the EHR

Health systems and health information exchanges across the country are trying to identify and integrate social determinants of health data, but it is not an easy task, according to this recent EHR Intelligence article.

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